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Broken Anvil Books began publishing in 2005. "A Garden of Vectors" is a new book to be released on a Compact Disc in August 2009. University Students preparing for careers in engineering can study Statics and Dynamics in the first 6-chapters. The following 9-chapters should interest other individuals. Consider just three: (1) Egyptologists may be attracted to a story about how the pyramid at Giza was built without the use of Pi or trigonometry;(2)Statisticians are invited to compare the successive solutions of the Least Square Method to an algebraic solution of a line best fitting almost linear data; 3)Aeronautical Engineers should examine a new theory that defines the attitude of a rigid body after N-rotations about 3-orthogonal axes in which N has no theoretical limit and the N-rotations can occur in any axis sequence. And there is more: Psychologists will read about a trick in Mueller-Lyer optical illusions; the chapter on orbital motion of Earth will be provocative or useless to Astronomers; what propels the motion of a hurricane westward may be of interest to Meteorologists; the link between weather phenomenon and daily axis of rotation is shown; the hammer-rotation trick used by carpenters and several Circus tricks are discussed. Four computer programs are included.